Author: Ralph Balson, Wawiriya Burton, Janangoo Butcher, Michael Buzacott, Timothy Cook, Ian Fairweather, Rhonda Hamlyn, Susannah Hamlyn, Roy Jackson, Kawiny Tjampawa, Robert Klippel, Emily Kame, Leo Loomans, Nonggirrnga Marawili, Jon Molvig, Rerrkirrwanga Munungurr, Doreen Reid Nakamarra, Tiger Palpatja, John Peart, Wakartu Cory Surprise, George Tjungurrayi, Harry Tjutjuna, Tony Tuckson, Ken Whisson, Nyapanyapan Yunupingu.There is a long-established tendency in museums and galleries to emphasise fundamental differences between indigenous and non- indigenous Australian art at the expense of any common ground they might possibly share. Private collectors tend to be less inhibited in this regard. They are much more open to the play of analogies, rapports and apparent convergences of works, even if these be no more than accidental and fleeting. The outstanding private collection surveyed in this publication braces indigenous and non- indigenous works in a utopian vision, where there is the possibility of exchange between equals, where the playing field is level, where the indigenous seems to be normative and the non-indigenous a series of unconscious, deeply reverential and somehow secondary echoes. Here animated and compelling conversation springs up between works by Ralph Balson and Nyapanyapan Yunupingu; Ian Fairweather, Tony Tuckson, Emily Kame Kngwarreye and George Tjungurrayi, to name a few. A veritable feast for the eye and a balm to the spirit not to be missed.ISBN 9780995425897. Drill Hall Publishing. pb. 72 pages. 21 x 22 cm cm.available
